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Gift Establishes UC Merced Presidential Chair in the Humanities

February 9, 2015
The University of California, Merced, will soon benefit from increased leadership in the humanities, thanks to an anonymous $500,000 donation and a $500,000 match from the UC Office of the President.   The gift and match will establish a $1 million endowment to fund the UC Merced Presidential Chair...

Inaugural GradSLAM! Event Set to Kick Off

February 5, 2015
The UC Merced Graduate Division will soon launch GradSLAM!, in which Ph.D. students will hone their public speaking skills before competing against their peers on campus in a research presentation competition. The winner will compete in the first-ever UC systemwide GradSLAM! competition.   GradSLAM...

KFSN | UC Merced Researchers Helping Find New Ways to Treat Melanoma

February 5, 2015
Professor Fabian Filipp analyzed DNA from hundreds of melanoma tumors to figure out specifically what drives the disease.

Professors Share in UC Effort to Study Effects of Climate Change

February 4, 2015
Several UC Merced faculty members will play important roles in a new UC systemwide effort to study the ecological effects of climate change across varied ecosystems. Funded by a $1.9 million President's Research Catalyst Awards grant from UC President Janet Napolitano and led by UC Santa Cruz...

Humanities Center to Host Visiting Lecturers

February 3, 2015
The next week will be a busy one for the Center for the Humanities at UC Merced. David Palumbo-Liu, the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University,  will be on campus two days this week. He will deliver a lecture on “Rationality, Racism and Imagining Social...

$100,000 Wells Fargo Gift Supports Engineering Capstone Program

February 2, 2015
Longtime campus contributor Wells Fargo is giving a $100,000 grant to help students at the University of California, Merced, design technologies that address some of the Central Valley’s water, energy and food needs. Wells Fargo’s Clean Technology and Innovation grant is part of a focused effort to...

Political Scientist Studies Who Tortures Whom, and Why

January 28, 2015
What makes a government decide to use torture in its interrogations? How do those decisions differ when terrorism is suspected? Once torture starts, how can it be stopped?   These questions are at heart of the research being conducted by political scientist Courtenay Conrad, a professor in the UC...

Aldenderfer to Speak at Prestigious Indian Event

January 27, 2015
Mark Aldenderfer, dean of the UC Merced School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, will speak this weekend as a guest lecturer at Kshitij, the annual “techno-management fest” of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. IIT Kharagpur, the oldest and largest of the Indian Institutes of...

Professor to Deliver Public Talk on Stem Cell Research

January 26, 2015
Professor Kara E. McCloskey will speak this week about cardiovascular stem cell engineering as part of the Modesto Area Partners in Science (MAPS) lecture series. The free talk will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, in Sierra Hall 132 at Modesto Junior College’s West Campus. It’s open to anyone...

Students' Spanish Skills Aid Valley Crisis Center

January 26, 2015
In the fall semester, UC Merced Senior Lecturer Virginia Adán-Lifante offered extra credit to students who volunteered to translate a portion of the Valley Crisis Center website into Spanish. The opportunity reflected Adán-Lifante’s longstanding commitment to service learning. And on a campus that...

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